Zitat des Tages von Anthony Hopkins:
I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.
I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.
I'm not a health freak. I just work out every day.
I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.
I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.
I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.
Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.
Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.
I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America.
I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.
I'm the slowest driver in the world.
I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.
And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.
Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.
I've got a great sense of humor.
I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative.
I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort - I think it keeps you going.
My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set.
I've had no contact with my daughter for years. That's her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don't want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.
I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.
I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.
I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.
I love life because what more is there?
Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, 'I want to get out and become like him'. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.
I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.
My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.
I never make conscious decisions.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.